The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13

tives to the celebration.
Mr.. GRIMLEY, an pronaut, and his com
panon in balloon ascension at Portland,
Maine, were carried out to sea by the wind,
but were rescued by the yacht g Mermaid
THIRTEEN negroes have been hanged by
whites in Morehouse Parish, La, in connec-
ton with the recent effort of the blacks to
rescue one of their number who was being
taken to jail.
MOUNT Hoop, two miles and half high,
the loftiest peak in Oregon, was illuminated
July 4th with hundred pounds of red fire.
The light could be seen at Portland, over
fifty miles away.
IT is announced in social circles that Miss
Mollie Garfield of Mentor, daughter of the
late President Garfield, will be married
soon to Stanley Brown, who was Garfied's
private secretary.
DURING drill at Jasz- Bareny, capital of
Jazygia, Hungary, dynamite cartridge ex-
ploded, killing twenty-seven men and in
juring forty-eight others. or the killed
thirteen were officers.
The Bulgarian assembly has elected Prince
Ferdinand of SAKE Coburg Gotha, king.
| He is related to Queen Victoria. He mar
ried the Belgian kings daughter and is an
Austrian major-general.
A PORTION of the land bordering on the
lake at Zug, the capital of the Swiss
| canton of that name, subsidized and twenty
occupants were drowned.
The town of Hurley, Wis, was the scene
of great fire on Saturday night. Eleven
| persons lost their lives, and the property
destroyed was valued at 100000. The fire
originated in small theater.
CowHICK & WHIrcoMBs stock of dry
goods at Cheyenne, Wyoming, worth S125,-
600, was burned recently, and the building
was damaged $4,000. Insurance on stock
! S96, GOO and on building S25 900.
REV. WILLIAM w. TURNER, for many
years principal of the American Asylum for
the Deaf and Dumb at Hartford, CT, died
Monday, at the age of eighty-seven years.
He was graduated at Yale in 1919.
UNITED STATES SENATOR HEARsT's seat is
said to be in danger. He is a democrat
from California. Atiidavts charging bril-
berry in his election are said to have been
filed with the secretary of the senate.
THE New York city directory, issued this
week, contains 2,175 pages of names, num-
boring in all 1874 1913 and indicating popu-
lation of Cos, 600. There are 2,300 Smiths,
| 800 Browns and 800 Joneses enrolled.
THREE hotels, the Stdnddrd- Enterprise
printing-office, two furniture stores and
thirty-one other business establishments
were burned at Grafton, West Virginia.
Loss $4,000 to 100000; little insurance.
DIR. CHRIsTIANsoN of Peru, Ind, shot his
step-daughter last Wednesday for marrying
without his approval. thousand persons
attended his impromptu execution that
night. He was taken from Jail and hanged.
yam PHoN LEE of Fragrant Hills, China,
who graduated with high honors at Yale's
last commencement, was last week united
in matrimony to Miss Elizabeth Maude
Jerome New Haven heiress. He first
came to America in 1873.
ABOUT fifty people were made i'll in New
York by eating ice-cream purchased from a
| nj ms EiOhtpan ara
ill. The maker has offered a large reward
for the discovery of the way in which the
cream became poisoned.
THE Salisbury government met with its
first defeat last week, on a motion touching
a recent abuse of power by the police OF
London. The vote was light and the ma
jority against the government was slight
the vote standing 153 to las.
A MAN named Schmak, who has just
been arrested in Moravia, has committed
six murders, three great robberies and nut
merous thefts. He had in his possession a
programme for the murder of eighty of the
richest inhabitants of Moravia.
Miss VAN LEW, a 81, 200 clerk in the post
Office department, has been dropped to q
laborer's pay. She was the only Union
white woman in Richmond during the wal
and did much for Union prisoners. She was
postmistress at Richmond under Grant and
Hayes.
FARMERS in the vicinity of the great gas
wells located near Kokoma, Ind, have jus
closed grand harvest jubilee and exhibi-
ton of wheat-cutting by natural gas-light
Self-bnders were run all night and the mel
stacked the wheat under the blaze Of natu
raj gas.
FIRE broke out again the 9TH in the smol
, dering ruins at Clarendon, Pa, and the
derricks, sheds and tanks about three oil
| wells were burned. The first fire destroyed
2Sl buildings, leaving but sixteen in the
town. William Thompson little chill / wa
burned up.
MANY mutlated bodies of murdered Chi
namen are floating down the Columbi;
river into Oregon. The pig-tails probabl,
We're miners and have been robbed ant
killed by the whites. The Chinese ministe
! at Washington will investigate the matte
and demand satisfaction.
l AN immense flow of natural gas was oh
tanned at Port Huron, Mich, at a depth o
two hundred forty feet, the pressure beini
1 estimated at from three hundred to five hun
4 bred pounds to the inch. The roaring an
screaming of the gas were heard half mil
away, and the business portion OF the cit
was lighted by the flame from the well.
, FIRE broke out in the barracks of the eta
del at Quebec last Wednesday night, an
e 5000 persons fled the city to escape tn
i peril of powder explosions. But the fir
4 was subdued before it reached the magazine
Inc BONernOr-generalS ana OfncerS Qual
tiers, stables of the artillery hospital, an
/ provincial armory, which contains 25,Ot
# stands of arms, were injured. Loss est
mated at $4,000; no insurance.
CATERPILLARs are committing great ray
: ages in the Schuylkill Valley, Pa, this set
a son. Trees, vines and shrubbery are bein
literally eaten up, and there seems to /
no way to get rid of the pests In Berl
> county farmers have resorted to the use
i the shotgun, using it early in the morning
10 when the worms are gathered in gref
lunches on the limbs of the trees. TIL
,r method is said to be less hurtful to IL
r trees than the use of fire.
d, THE Gaulois of Paris says that the Com
de Paris, in bidding farefell to his friene
3, on the Island of Jersey, after adyocatiI
a. silence, said: "You may be sure we wi
e win before long. Monarchy will come wit
out violent effort and by gentle trans
n. ton, for our organization is in training al
to everything is ready The new COVER
II ment will get into immediate workiI
order, and on the eventful day |, helped
:, all good Frenchmen, shall be king"
If FREDERICK l.. AMEs, president of u
re stock company owning the Boston Adce
tiser and Record, denies positively that tho
. papers have been sold to Charles f. Whit
~ of Whitinsville, as was stated few da
" ago. Mr.. Ames says that the only found
u ton for the rumor of the sale is the ia
that the papers were offered TO Mr.. Whit
in at a certain price, but the negotiations we
rs uavpr carried to conclusion. The pane